Chevy Chase: Saturday Night Live’s Cruelest Host 

Chevy did nothing wrong. Learn to take a roast

Yeah, well, infinity plus one!

You are 100% annoying, not entertaining

It worries me how many people subscribe to that type of humor.

But isn't that dependent on how the joke is received and not the intent?

That might be why he hated the role and Dan Harmon so much, because he might have started to catch on to what Harmon was doing.

He was fired for calling Donald Glover the n-word on set.

i always thought something was off with that guy, and the character

@@PickleJello What's hilarious is he didn't. It was literally the "Old White Man Says" joke but real life. I think it was on one of the episode's DVD commentary, but Dan Harmon said he started writing in lines for Pierce that Chevy would say off camera. Chevy would read the script and say "That's hilarious! I love it!" seemingly completely oblivious. Like, I think the "I'm not leaving my trailer till theres food," line was actually said.

@@IranahyeNotVTECI came here to say something very similar so thanks for saving me from needing to do so.

His apology for the AIDS joke being insincere and self congratulatory, telling Robert Downy Jr. his dad was in hell, Chase was perfectly cast in Community.

@@tacticaljunk1608And what’s weird is that his dad wasn’t even dead! He died in 2021.

Might be why he's so butthurt about his material in Community, it hits too close to home.

Famously said he "didnt get why it was funny". Couldn't stand being laughed at. ​@@bigbearkat2010

Are you crazy, Pierce was at least SOMETIMES sympathetic and likable

Nepotism? He got away with it because he was an absurdly funny and talented comedic actor, and as long as people in the industry can make money off of his comedy they will let him get away with more than others would. Same thing with talented athletes being protected by universities and pro sports teams.

Nepotism? WTF?

@@22steve5150Funny? That’s relative.

But that’s every job, including the one you work, if the bosses like you, you get more passes than other coworkers

@@hatednyc the adjusted grosses for the comedies that he starred in in the 80's speak for themselves. About 1.6 billion, 7th among comedic actors for the decade.

Oh man, considering how much Farley idolised Belushi, talk about hitting him right where it hurt 😢

What's worse is that Chris Farley did end up actually dying of an overdose, so this hits much, _much_ harder

Who is Chris Farley.

@@madchad4805 look him up. There are tons of documentaries on him and clips on RU-vid and a song Adam Sandler made about him. His biggest movie was Tommy Boy and he was on SNL.

​@@madchad4805He's my hero. Knowing Chevy was a dick to him makes me hate him more.

😂 Those writers deserve an award for best poetic justice!

they let him be himself and he got too comfortable being himself until they realised they didn't like who he was

Sinéad O'Connor: Speaks out against the abuse within the Catholic church. Banned.

@@themaggattack thanks for that one, I can't believe I forgot it

Tom Green was banned for being Tom Green??? What did they expect!?

That’s SNL Alright.

@@marcen12 Right??

I know exactly who you’re talking about. I was an NBC Page in the late ‘90s. I can’t remember his name, but he was there every show. We usually found a way to get him in. Nice guy.

Good to know there’s some good out of the story.

@@RonMotta1972Louis?

@@culwin YES!!!! Thank you!!!! Really nice guy, had so many fascinating stories. Everybody loved him and we always made sure he got in.

Wow. Did the comedian respond with something silly? Wow.

agree I'm 100% for all jokes (especially dark jokes) but they have too be funny and not mean spirited

A real "people die when they are killed" moment.

Norm Macdonald is who Chevy Chase wishes he was funny as. The wrong one died.

​@@alexandru5369Aren't dark jokes just jokes that are mean spirited? If not, how would you differentiate them?

Dark jokes are jokes that touch on dark subjects i.e. cancer, rape etc. A mean spirited hoke can be disguised as a "you're ugly" joke but really just intentionally ripping on someone's looks just hiding it behind a joke. @@purplemist7

Indeed he did. Good old Bill. :)

🤦 Read a book.

@@wellesradioNo point... for me, anyway. They no longer provide the necessary stimuli. Ebooks, however, I'm open to. :)

No disrespect to Bill Murray but they're both in a very similar bracket in terms of comedy and talent. Both of them basically just have one character but they're both very funny characters.

Yeah everyone loves Murray and hates Chase. Yet I've heard just as many bad stories about "good old Bill". People just take sides based on popular opinion.

Someone needs to do a video on all the bans on SNL because I personally feel a lot of them are unfair…

​@@NotAPostingCartoonistsinead O'Connor was banned because she told the truth

Chevy and Lorne were besties.

I don’t it allowed Epstein and Weinstein.

I think Lorne and SNL will always have a soft spot for Chevy because it literally began with him, he was the breakout star of the first season, he was the first to leave, first to become a movie star, etc.... Perhaps its an unfair bias but Chevy was somewhat instrumental to the beginning of SNL to begin with so he likely gets a pass that some guy who guest hosted in season 22 and ad-libbed something doesn't.

You can enjoy his work without liking him. It's okay to separate the art from the artist.

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAWit's also okay if you're unable to

Don't believe the hype!

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW right, Chevy is a pos but he never murdered anybody, as far as we know he wasn't Spacey or Cosby, etc..... I can still enjoy the Vacation movies while knowing at the back of my mind that he's not somebody I'd wish to meet in person.

@@nah....6151 I enjoy Spacey and Cosby too. Spacey was found innocent. And Cosby's conviction was overturned.

ironic

Ironic, considering that modern Family Guy, does that

The *Good Times* reboot crossed the line so fast, I thought it was a race-swapped remake of *Chariots of Fire!*

"Isn't it ironic...don't ya think." "IT'S LIKE RAAAAAAIN-"

Elon Musk has been mentioned as the worst host. And yes, his episode was terrible. But the cast overreacted. They were literally asking for "safe spaces" because he was hosting.

Seagal's other problem was that he was so far up his own ass, he was unable to laugh at himself

Letting Steven Seagal host this show would be like letting Doris Day host *MTV Headbangers.*

@@Attmayto be fair to them, they’d already had Stallone host the show before, so they likely thought it would be more of the same. Get in a big name actor known for action films, have them play up their persona, do some sketches based around the types of movies they’re in, it should have worked…if they picked another action star. Cause Seagal is just a sad little man who couldn’t handle getting bullied as a kid and refuses to be seen as a joke, hell his own mother roasted him by exposing the fact “he was a sickly and frail child” and honestly, I fully support mama Seagal on that one, expose your POS son all you want

When he bequeathed

ya because Dan was a saint to work with and did no wrong while working on the show

​@jsmith3946 what does that have to do with Chevy? 😂 do you always interject random stuff into unrelated conversations?

yeah nobody was defending dan harmon in this lmao, chevy chase was just a massive asshole in general. in particular he said some pretty nasty, racist shit to donald glover on set

NAWT THE N-WORD!! OH MY (FAINTED)

I remember hearing about a roast done on him for Comedy Central that is just infamous for how bad it is and part of the reason is because almost everyone roasting him is a complete stranger because the obvious invintees didn't want anything to do with it.

it's great that Zappa was John Belushi's antithesis, a complete teetotaler with no respect for people who drank or did drugs, including the cast of SNL, and yet Belushi was such a big fan of his that he didn't care as long as he got to host

I remember watching Elvis Costello do that. They started the song, played about a minute, and Elvis stopped, started waving his hands and saying, "No, no." Then they launched into the song they weren't supposed to play. I admired him for that. I remember watching the Zappa performance, too. They had little "boxes" on top of the studio monitors. When they did I Am the Slime, green slime oozed down the screens. They had Don Pardo do the voice part at the end.

I guess it depends HOW you go off script. Lindsay Lohan in the Debbie Downer sketch wasn't supposed to storm off when she did because she couldn't contain herself since EVERYONE was breaking.

@@Chelaximthat’s the only allowable break and it has to be organic so that it isn’t directly noticeable…flubbing lines accidentally is ok as well but not if it’s more than once and or due to intentionally flubbing-like Frank

Then you got Rage Against The Machine, who turned the audience into a freaking mosh pit. I’m honestly shocked nobody died or was injured during that, cause can you imagine just being like a middle aged guy going out for a night of comedy, then getting thrown into an impromptu mosh pit? Nightmare fuel

he interviewed Jim Varney once and he was really rude to him, broke my heart.. poor Jim

​@@AbrasiousProductionsAww no not Jim Varney 😢 RIP should've been Chevy

@@GiantBluebird agreed, no one needs Chevy

​@@AbrasiousProductionsChevy was just chaffed because Earnest P. Worrel could kick Clark Griswold's whiney, yuppy ass any day! 😂 (Imagine how the interaction would be between Earnest and cousin Eddy!) 😆

@@themaggattack I know right, Ernest isn't even a fighting man but if push came to shove, he'd hand Clark's ass to him.

Chase is a talented actor, but his ego is clearly out of control.

I mean, you pretty much just told the whole story right there. Probably not much to say.

I heard he wanted to tick off Lorne Michaels, and I thought, “Of all the things you could have done to tick off Lorne Michaels, that’s what you went with?”

@@karaoconnoraliasraidra no wonder his career went down the crapper

It wasn’t even improvised which… makes it stranger. It’s been confirmed the bit was done in dress rehearsals as well.

It's been known and he admits to becoming irritable the longer a production drags on and keeps him away from home. Groundhog Day was filmed in reverse order with this in mind.

@@timtheskeptic1147 Like they filmed it in a way where his character gets more fed up with all this shit right alongside him? 🤣

@stingerjohnny9951 yep, the first half where he's a pompous ass was filmed last. The last half when he's charming and whimsical was filmed first. He seems to get fed up being a prop piece when dozens of people are working much harder than himself.

The difference is that Bill is a manic depressive and Chevy isn’t. Bill acts like an asshole towards individual people, but then also has this need to be loved by everyone so does these insane grand gestures and kisses up to fans. Chevy doesn’t care what you think.

@@wellesradio That’s some BoJack Horseman shit right there

Correct. Fire the Research Dept.

Stick Chevy in a room with 60’s Era William Shatner, 1979-1981 Era Tom Baker, Hulk Hogan and 90’s Era Shawn ‘HBK’ Michaels just to see the unbridled ego clashes that unfolds between them. Especially with Tom Baker being in his irate incarnation where he’s ruthless to the crew (mostly the writers) behind the scenes of Doctor Who Season 17-18 and just having a chip on his shoulder.

@@rayvenkman2087 Now that's a wrestling tag match worth waiting for. :)

@@OnafetsEnovap I bet on HBK losing his smile in the battle.

​​@@rayvenkman2087 if I Had a Time Machine You are the Kind of Person I'd Bring along as a Navigator. Imagine being able to grab people from different moments in Time and put them together like bugs in a Jar Some of the Funniest Match Offs I can think of off the top are : 1.Adolf H. vs Abraham Father of Judaism & Islam. 2. Kim Kardashian vs Jesus of Nazareth 3. Julius Caesar vs Brutus(we warn Caesar beforehand and see how it goes down differently) 4. Napoleon Bonaparte vs Abraham Lincoln 5. Napoleon Bonaparte vs Judy Garland & the Munchkin Cast of the Wizard of Oz(we don't tell Napoleon it's fake) Ahhh theres so many. Heck forget matchups we could jus cause chaos like imagine bringing Ghandi to the moment Big Boy was Dropped and watching him cry. Kinda messed up but in this Hypothetical scenario we can Travel Time & Space so not like public opinion matters when you're basically a God!

@Jeriel_Lux Saint Germaine vs the author of Empress Theresa.

I love the Lampoons Vacations movies too, especially the Christmas one- I watch it every year, too. It's tradition. Got some hilarious holiday quotes. However, in retrospect... Even Clark Griswold was an insufferable, irritable, arrogant, egotistical, self-absorbed, classist, sexist, dick!! How did we not see this about Chevy? I guess we assumed he was being ironic, but he wasn't.

See, I primarily knew him from Community, so it’s extremely easy to accept that he’s Pierce in real life

Lorne is old now, and completely out of touch with comedy. He needs to retire. He still runs SNL like a drill sergeant. You still aren't allowed to improvise, and must read off of the cue cards. It's time for Lorne to step down and resign. But he won't do that because his ego is too big. But after 50 years at the helm, he needs to let someone else at the reigns who can bring a fresh new invigorating feel to the show. I think Keegan Michael Key would be a great as the showrunner.

I've seen you everywhere!

Lorne is pronably the only person Chevy didn't disrespect. He's too high up on the narcessist, alpha male pecking order.

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAWThe last few years of SNL with the woeful material for it is enough to kill off any other skit show. Not helped by the whole stealing ideas from RU-vidrs fiasco that only further highlights how out of tune it is with the current comedy scene.

@@rayvenkman2087 SNL is just running off of pure legacy at this point. Kenan is the only thing good on SNL. We've seen so many better sketch comedy shows come and go, and bow out gracefully. Key and Peele was way funnier than SNL. Since SNL is a marquee brand, and it's been on network TV NBC every Saturday at 11:30 pm for the last 50 years, they know it will still get eyeballs. Plus NBC has nothing to replace it with that will be nearly as popular. And no other channel has anything that can even compete with it. So SNL will stay on for another 50 years.

Lmao, I recognise that Rick & Morty reference

@@djpegao piece of toast deserves his time to shine!

To Pierce, may he rest in Pierce *drunk snort*

I believe Chevy was a second choice for Pierce as apparently they originally looked to get Patrick Stewart at Pierce

@@mrcritical6751 That would be an…interesting performance

Probably regretting not casting Patrick Stewart. Considering how toxic Chevy was to be around.

I remember watching the Smothers Brothers do a special on my great grandma's enormous, ornate, wood grain box color T.V. set. I'd stay up late watching T.V. on my parent's little black & white T.V., just waiting for my dad to get home from working the late shift. Hearing "LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!" Was SO exciting!! Everything was olive drab, mustard yellow, brown, and bright Orange. Those were the days.

Right, this cannot be understated. Chevy was on SNL at the beginning, he was the first cast member to break out, become a movie star, etc...., at this point he's a washed up relic but he'll always be intertwined with SNL's history

But it paid off for Mike Myers. If you know the crazy story behind Shrek. Shrek was actually a book first. Most people don't know that, because the book doesn't resemble the movie one bit. Basically the only similarities of the book and the movie, is there's an ogre named Shrek, and a donkey. Anyway, in 1991, 10 years before the Shrek movie was released, Steven Spielberg purchased the rights of the book to turn it into a film. It was originally going to be a 2D film. But after delays, and the success of Toy Story, they decided to go full CGI. Shrek was actually supposed to be DreamWorks Animation's first film, not Antz. They eventually got Chris Farley to voice Shrek. Chris Farley was a very popular comedian from the SNL renaissance of the 90s, and he had 2 hit movies, which made him a bankable movie star. So legend has it, Farley completed 75%-85% of his lines for Shrek before he died in 1997. And then the production was in chaos yet again. They scrambled to find a replacement for Farley, big names like Nicholas Cage, and others. But everyone they offered it to turned it down, stating that the Shrek character was too grotesque looking, and that they didn't want to voice such a grotesque looking character. If you look at the early designs of Shrek, you will know what I'm talking about. So they had to completely redesign Shrek, and make him cute. Eventually Mike Myers, one of Farley's fellow SNL cast members, who had just had a breakout smash with Austin Powers, agreed to voice Shrek, and take over for his friend Farley. So Mike recorded his dialog in his normal voice, and everyone loved it. But being the perfectionist Mike is, he decided he didn't like it, and wanted to re-record all his dialog with a Scottish accent. Costing the studio millions of dollars. But they agreed to it, because Mike Myers was the biggest movie star in the world, and they were already years delayed, and didn't want Myers to walk out, causing them to find another actor. So after 10 years, Shrek comes out, becomes the cultural phenomenon it is, and the rest is history.

@@joeybaseball7352 Oh yes it certainly did in the case of Shrek. It's the same voice he used for Stewart Mackenzie in So I Married An Axe Murderer and Fat Bastard in Austin Powers.

The fact that he behaved that way over Bordello of Blood of all things is just the perfect punch line isn’t it? 🤣

@@stingerjohnny9951 Oh yes, Dennis very much said he did not like working on it, in a David Letterman or Tonight Show interview and also he got in a fight with Corey Feldman. It was the only movie set Feldman has been on where he didn't befriend anyone because everyone was in a bad mood except for Angie Everhart who was exceptionally sweet and nice.

Not just TV. You look up stories from any director he worked with during the peak of his movie career, and he was no picnic then either.

His general attitude ironically reminds me of a bit he did in Community. Pierce got mad and alienated everyone because he felt everyone else thought he was a joke and that he ruins everything to which Joel McHale rightfully countered "this doesn't disprove the theory!"

why the groomer profile picture?

@@AbrasiousProductions Why are you such a shit?

It sounds like he butted heads with everybody

That's why you never meet your heroes. I think Chevy is trash from everything I've read but I still watch the original Vacation and Christmas Vacation at least once a year because they're timeless and they're still funny

I only got to eat at the Friars Club a few times as a guest. Some of those roasts had incredibly talented performers.

I’m glad you liked it. ☂️ It’s an underrated game Are you excited for Princess Peach’s Showtime?

@@KawikaProductions yes.

In Hollywood, word gets around about people. So it wouldn’t surprise me if they heard stories about Chevy’s behavior.

The writers knew. They did it on purpose. 😂

Far from the worst in Hollyweird

Probably from that one guy who heckled “we love you Chevy”! 5:42

That's just how people were back then. Not excusing it, but it's just true.

Bill Murray usually feels like he's trolling people at least.

Bill at least has the awareness to admit he’s got his issues while Chase thinks he’s never in the wrong.

It's not like there's a single incident for Chase. There's decades worth of examples of him being an asshole.

@@bigbearkat2010 I never said it was 'just one', I queried as to what more context was omitted from these claims. Furthermore, it shouldn't be a secret that practically everyone in the entertainment industry is a two-faced lying scumbag, so when one guy's name comes into the spotlight, we should all be asking about who was omitted from that spotlight. Chase was being a dick to everyone? That's entertainment culture; EVERYONE does that, its practically an open secret. I'm not saying that makes it any more acceptable, but that the only difference is that everyone else will lie or fake some kind of apology to save face, while Chase -apparently, is open and unapologetic about it

@@TorridPrime217 lmao no, not every person in the entertainment industry sexually harasses coworkers, makes fun of aids, (allegedly)assaults people, or gets into huge fights behind the scenes on comedy shows…. That is literally not possible, there are millions of people in the industry and if it was true then there simply wouldn’t be an industry anymore because nobody could work with each other. I get the urge to be cynical but actually think about it. The entertainment industry is full of a bunch of normal people like you and me. Some of them do this stuff, some of them are jerks, some of them just have bad days, a lot of them are people trying to do the best they can. That’s why the assholes get called out in the first place. Not every nice person is secretly evil lol

SNL is just as bad for firing him for Victoria Jackson.

He only takes requests through the channel Patreon.

@@HispanicToddendale oh. I don’t have patreon. Does he look through comments. Even without looking for requests?

I’m sure he does. He just doesn’t reply very often these days since he’s been growing so much. It’s got to be hard to get to them all.

@@HispanicToddendale ight